A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a woman who was found last week in a Catonsville park.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a woman who was found last week in a Catonsville park.

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Updated: 6:12 PM EST Nov 10, 2015

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WEBVTT 11 NEWS REPORTER LOWELL MELSER IS LIVE IN CATONSVILLE WITH THE DISTURBING DETAILS. ACCORDING TO CHARGING DOCUMENTS, THEY HAD BEEN AT THIS PARK BACK IN MID-OCTOBER WITH FRIENDS. WHEN THEY WERE LEFT ALONE, CHARGING DOCUMENTS SAY THAT HE MURDERED THE WOMAN IN A WOODED AREAS, NOW THANKS TO A SUPPOSEDLY HAVE HIM, HE SAYS THAT HE CONFESSED TO HIM AND POLICE MADE AN ARREST. SHE'S IN A BETTER PLACE, WHATEVER SHE WAS DOING, HER DEBT IS PAID AND SHE CAN WALK AND DANCE AROUND IN HEAVEN ALL DAY LONG. FOR DEBBIE ADDISON, THE NEWS CAME AS QUITE A SHOCK. LAST WEEK, BALTIMORE COUNTY DETECTIVES WOULD COME TO HER DOOR, TO TELL HER, HER, FOSTER DAUGHTER OF MORE THAN 12 YEARS, CARLITA COLEMAN, HAD BEEN MURDERED. IT'S HEARTBREAKING FOR ANY MOTHER, EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS A MOM THAT SHE LOVED DEARLY, WE BOTH SHARED THE LOVE FOR CARLITA SO IT'S A LOSS FOR BOTH OF US. POLICE SAY, TERRANCE OMAR NEWMAN JUNIOR KILLED COLEMAN IN THE WESTVIEW NEIGHBORHOOD PARK AND LEFT HER BODY IN THE WOODS. ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT FROM ONE OF NEWMAN'S FRIENDS, BACK ON OCTOBER 15, HE, ALONG WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND AND SISTER, HAD BEEN HANGING OUT WITH NEWMAN AND COLEMAN IN THIS PAVILLION AT THE PARK AT AROUND 8 PM, THEY LEFT THE TWO ALONE. THE FRIEND SAYS, ON NOVEMBER 5, NEWMAN TOLD HIM THE COUPLE WENT FOR A WALK IN THE WOODS TO HAVE SEX, BUT SHE TRIED TO CHOKE HIM, SO HIS MILITARY INSTINCTS KICKED IN AND HE HIT HER AND CHOKED HER, ULTIMATELY KILLING HER. THE FRIEND SAYS NEWMAN THEN SAID HE COVERED HER BODY WITH LEAVES AND STICKS. HE ALSO SAYS NEWMAN SAID HE HAD JUST CHECKED ON THE BODY, AND FOUND IT COVERED IN MAGGOTS, HE THEN NOTICED MAGGOTS ON NEWMAN'S JEANS. ONCE ALONE THE FRIEND CALLED , POLICE AND THEY ARRESTED NEWMAN. POLICE ARE RELEASING THIS PICTURE OF COLEMAN IN HOPES OF LEARNING MORE ABOUT HER, TO HELP BUILD THEIR CASE. WE WANT EVERYBODY TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND SEE IF, MAYBE THEY DON'T KNOW HER BUT THEY MIGHT HAVE SEEN HER SOMEWHERE RECENTLY AND WE'RE INTERESTED TO KNOW ANY KIND OF INFORMATION SOMEONE MAY HAVE ABOUT HER. CHARGING DOCUMENTS SAY THAT NEWMAN DID TALK WITH POLICE AS SOON AS HE WAS ARRESTED. HOWEVER, HE DENIED MURDERING THE GIRL, BUT DID A THAT HE DID RETURN TO THIS PARK, BUT TO LOOK FOR SOMETHING THAT HE HAD LOST. HE HAS SINCE BEEN CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND OR IT POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ON THIS CASE TO CALL THE PHONE NUMBER.

Man charged in death of Catonsville woman

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a woman who was found last week in a Catonsville park.